Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

"In fact, I owe you a big favor, Junior Brother." EVA skillfully prepared a classic cocktail for Lu Mingfei with brandy, Cointreau, lemon juice and orange juice. In the space separated by a huge glass wine cabinet next to her, Ling was playing games with Eri.

In the presidential suite of the Regent Hotel, Lu Mingfei and EVA were drinking leisurely across the circular dining table.

"I don't understand what you mean." Lu Mingfei scratched his head.

"Let's drink first. We call it Side Car. It's the most classic combination of brandy and the first classic cocktail based on brandy." EVA smiled and pushed the wide-mouthed cup in front of Lu Mingfei.
“My friends used to love drinking this one.”

Lu Mingfei picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then carefully looked at the girl in front of him who had changed into pajamas after returning to the hotel.

EVA's figure is very similar to Eri's, so she can wear her clothes directly, which are sky blue plush pajamas and plush bunny slippers with two long ears hanging on the slippers. There is a facial mask on her little face, so her expression cannot be seen clearly.

“I don’t quite understand what you mean. If I really have to say who I owe a favor to, it should be me who owes you, right, senior sister?” Lu Mingfei said.

When Lu Mingfei was studying in college, he often asked EVA to help him get review materials for a certain subject from Ling or Qilan's personal accounts.

"Because of you, my spirit can get a new carrier." said EVA.

"So, senior sister, what you mean is that your resurrection is actually thanks to me, right?" Lu Mingfei was puzzled. He could confirm that he had never been directly or indirectly involved in any related incidents.

It can even be said that when EVA appeared in front of him, the shock Lu Mingfei suffered was no different from what the Americans experienced when they encountered the 911/ incident. The incredible and unbelievable feelings simultaneously gripped his heart and sent electricity into it.

"The story begins in 2003, when my spirit was released from the Philosopher's Stone and injected into the academy's supercomputer due to an accident and became a digital life," said EVA.
"It is a life form different from humans and dragons, and also an ideology independent of existing theories... In that state, my spirit was incredibly strengthened by relying on the ubiquitous network base stations around the world and the radio waves that transmit information all the time. When no supercomputer on this planet could compete with me, the entire information world became me. In 2008, my spirit was extremely strong, infinitely close to that of the Dragon King."

"Wait, why is it 2008?" Lu Mingfei was a little confused.

"On May 2008, 5, the IBM supercomputer Roadrunner at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico pushed the computing speed to 25PF, exceeding the 1.026 trillion floating-point calculations per second for the first time, far exceeding the computing power of the Academy's Turing computer. Although I can still rely on advanced programs and intelligence that is beyond my time to fulfill my duty of monitoring the entire world, I can no longer extend my spirit to every corner of the information world. The power of EVA.Laurence, the first truly artificial dragon king in history and the king of virtuality, quickly fell from the altar after reaching its peak."

"You said that your spirit was infinitely close to that of the Dragon King. Does this mean that you, senior sister, have also briefly elevated yourself to a higher dimension?" Lu Mingfei grasped the key point of EVA's words.

The little devil once told him that the Dragon King is actually a third kind of creature different from humans and dragons. They rise and fall in the long river of time, but are essentially not affected by time.

Lu Mingze also said that the Dragon King is actually a being of a higher dimension, and that the great constraints of history are what limit them. If it weren't for the Twilight of the Gods, the world would have long been thrown into chaos by the ultimate secrets of alchemy.

This is because any Dragon King, after learning and settling down, can push alchemy to its peak like Norton did, and thereby reach the most mysterious "time reversal" and "separation of cause and effect" in the seven kingdoms of alchemy.

Lu Mingfei still remembers what Norton said and the expression on his face when he killed him.

In fact, he has always had a suspicion that Norton did not come from the future like him, but saw the ending from fate.

As the supreme master of alchemy, it was not difficult for the King of Bronze and Fire to do this.

"The data says you're a brainless loser, and Finkel also says you're not very smart sometimes, but I think you have a very good brain, Junior Brother." EVA smiled, "From 2005 to 2008, my spirit was so strong that I could even play with time to a certain extent, but the uncertainty was too great. I couldn't see the whole world like God, so I could only steal some data stored in the information world from the downstream of fate."

Lu Mingfei's heart moved slightly, and a kind of unspeakable anger slowly grew like mold on orange peel. He was thinking of something...

"The Tokyo Mission Report was stolen from my database by Dr. Herzog." EVA nodded.

"Sounds like an episode of Interstellar."

"But it shouldn't be difficult for you to understand. I don't think any human being in this world can understand the nature of the king as thoroughly as you do." EVA said. She performed some operations on a mobile phone, and then pushed the screen upwards along the table in front of Lu Mingfei.

"Of course, I know you may not be able to accept that such an incredible thing actually happened in the real world for a while, so I prepared evidence."

That was the interface of the Night Watchman Forum, and what appeared before Lu Mingfei was a post published on August 2010, 8—

"Monsters from the East have entered America."

"The unspeakable man-eating devil is approaching Illinois."

"The despicable Chinese have set foot in Chicago."

"Lu Mingfei boarded the CC1000 express."

"The rising star of the hybrid, the only S-Class, drove out of the Chicago train station."

"The new supreme king arrived in his loyal Kassel today, and his most fanatical news department is ready to check with His Majesty the Emperor at any time!"

It turned out to be the news released by the Information Department, which is known as the fence-sitter in Kassel, under the command of their minister, Finkel von Frings, the loser.

"This is a screenshot of the Night Watch forum. From the background, we can see that the screenshot was taken on September 2010, 9, the day when Freedom Day occurred," said EVA.

"so what?"

"Look at the ID of the person who posted this post."

Lu Mingfei then scrolled down the long screenshot and froze at the end. Posted by: Flame Dragon Slayer.

His thoughts seemed to drift away, and in a trance he actually crossed time and space and returned to the end of that tragic fate.

In another period of time, Lu Mingfei suffered from severe PTSD after returning to Kassel College from Tokyo. Chu Zihang was transferred to the Oslo branch under the arrangement of the executive department. Caesar finally accepted his surname and chose to reconcile with his family. After graduating from Kassel College, he returned to Italy and became the head of the Rome branch.

Finkel completed the principal's commission and ended his nine-year miserable life at Kassel College. After graduation, he was transferred to the Cuban branch as he wished, where he spent every day drinking and carousing with his girlfriends like Kim Kardashian, who could hold a glass of champagne on their butts.

But this guy is not someone who can sit still.

When Lu Mingfei accepted the Nibelungen Plan and had to be assigned by the Executive Department to slay dragons all over the world, Finkel was writing furiously on the Night Watcher Forum and wrote a masterpiece titled "The Legend of Slaying Dragons in Japan".

This novel is basically based on the Tokyo incident, and is the product of Finkel's wild imagination and somewhat melodramatic writing style.

In that novel, Chu Zihang was described as the "eternally burning eye magician", the Japanese branch run by Caesar was given the code name "the domineering nobleman", and Lu Mingfei, the mascot of the group who was so lucky that he could even abduct the little princess of the Sheqi family, was unsurprisingly given a rather flirtatious nickname in the novel, and everyone called him "the Sakura favored by God".

As the creator of the Japanese Dragon Slayer Legend, Young Master Fingel arranged a well-deserved male protagonist for himself in the story. He was a natural talent and famous in Europe. He wielded the Flame Demon Sword from the Alps to Hokkaido without blinking an eye. He was called the "Flame Dragon Slayer" by his contemporaries. However, he was unwilling to be trapped by love. After successively rejecting the love confessions of Gaoling Witch Chen Motong, Kitahara Princess Zero, Sword Saint Susie and the head of the Uesugi family in the Extreme Cold Elegy, he traveled the world with a sword on his back, composing a series of legends in the martial arts world...

Although Finkel is a rather shameless fellow, his writing is heart-wrenching, so Lu Mingfei, Caesar and Chu Zihang are all loyal readers of this novel.

In short, before returning to Chicago from Tokyo, Finkel's ID on the Night Watchman Forum was his real name. In his own words, a real man should never change his name or surname, and should dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility for things. How can you be a real man if you are timid?
"So Finkel also knows something about the future?" Lu Mingfei looked at EVA, "Did you deliberately leak the Tokyo mission report to Herzog?"

That's where his anger comes from.

If nothing had changed, Lu Mingfei could have avoided many disasters, and Xia Mi wouldn't have to fall into a deep sleep like she is now.

"No, there was a period of time when the cyber attacks from Italy were very frequent, and the intensity of the attacks was far stronger than Kaguya developed by the Japanese branch." EVA shook her head, "I was not awakened at the time. Norma was in charge of daily vigilance. She used most of her computing power to resist the attacks from Italy, and Kaguya took the opportunity to hack into the database."

"It sounds like Herzog is very lucky." Lu Mingfei narrowed his eyes.

"In fact, I have more detailed information about the source of the attack. It is located in the basement of the Qunqing Palace, which belongs to the Gattuso family, outside Rome." EVA shrugged and tore off the mask. "In order to make up for this mistake, Finkel traveled frequently between Japan and the United States for three consecutive years. During this period, he successfully instigated many loyal supporters of Herzog in the Demon Clan and the Eight Snake Families, and even told the truth to Yuan Zhisheng, who was highly expected by Herzog."

"Yuan Zhisheng?"

"Yes, he is definitely a qualified leader. After receiving the mission report from Tokyo, he immediately formulated a series of detailed plans and implanted them into his subconscious through hypnosis. Then the hypnotist we found temporarily sealed his memory." EVA said, "We all know that Herzog is a cunning man like a sand fox. In order to deceive him, he must first deceive himself. In order to gain his trust and make sure that it is his real body that is eliminated in the end, Yuan Zhisheng decided to use this method to gain Herzog's trust."

"How did you do it in the end?" Lu Mingfei frowned slightly. "Herzog chose to transform into a cocoon because you tampered with the White King's fetal blood, right?"

"Hilbert Jean Ange's folding knife was forged from the fragment of Menek Cassel's Atkan long sword, which was tempered with a deadly poison called Emerald Mixture." EVA said, "After entering the blood exchange device, Yuan Zhisheng used Ange's folding knife to cut his own blood vessels before his will fell into a deep sleep, and mixed the deadly poison into his blood... The main material of Emerald Mixture is the powder ground from the Philosopher's Stone, and the Philosopher's Stone cannot cause fatal damage to humans. It is usually used to suppress the vital signs of dragons."

The Holy Relics parasitized on Yuan Zhisheng's spine, and with the help of his bones, created hematopoietic stem cells that could evolve into the blood of the White King's fetus.

But even if it is the White King's fetal blood, it will take some time to completely transform a person. Herzog will not leave Yuan Zhisheng such an opportunity. He will start the blood transfusion ceremony immediately.

Then the blood of the White King's fetus mixed with the deadly poison completely entered Herzog's body.

The stronger he becomes, the weaker he becomes. The moment he completely transforms himself from a human into a dragon, that is when the Emerald Hun explodes.

Yuan Zhisheng, who has been completely deprived of blood, can rely on his powerful bloodline to temporarily survive the short-term shock and anemia, and then blood with matching blood type will be transfused into his body.

In this way they killed Herzog, and the only price they had to pay was that Yuan Zhisheng would be in an extremely weak state for a long time, in which he would not even be able to contend with a professionally trained A-level hybrid.

"You can see the shadows of me and Finkel in the Tokyo operation. We are by no means selfless heroes. While killing Herzog, we also got what we wanted." EVA tilted her head and supported her cheek with her hand.

Lu Mingfei was at ease, because he knew that what EVA was going to tell him next was the truth about how she was resurrected.

"I told you that before entering the academy's supercomputer, my form of existence was actually a spiritual element parasitic on the Philosopher's Stone." EVA said.

Lu Mingfei frowned and nodded. “As far as I know, humans cannot leave behind the Philosopher’s Stone, otherwise there should have been relevant records in history,” he said.

Never underestimate human greed. When they know that the Philosopher's Stone that can kill dragons or even prolong their own lives can be extracted from their own bodies, human lives become commodities that can be exchanged.

"Yes, even I don't know how I entered that state." EVA said, "But in fact, even you have encountered more than one spiritual carrier more than once so far."

"Living spirits, philosopher's stones, cocoons, even some alchemical matrix, right?"

"There is another kind that you have encountered, but it is not included in the list." EVA shook her head. "The Holy Relics, as the carrier of the White King's spiritual elements, are actually extremely precious alchemical materials. That kind of material cannot be copied. I can even transfer my spirit from the information world and enter the Holy Relics that have lost their vitality, and then control the Holy Relics to inject my spirit into my cloned body that Finkel brought from the academy to Tokyo."

Lu Mingfei's pupils shrank slightly.

Everything seems to be connected, all the lines... (End of this chapter)